“We at Team Lil’ Kim are not taking this lying down and are taking this matter very seriously,” C.J. Carter, a representative for Kim, said in a statement. “We would like to inform fans, the media, and the general public that this is nothing more than the blog site doing its best to conjure up much needed publicity and what better way to do so, than to take an American music icon and create a fictitious platform in which to disrespect and humiliate.”

Carter goes on the call the image, which was shot as Kim left a taping of MTV’s Rapfix Live earlier this week, as “fictitious, malicious and despicable.”

The hiphopstress also weighted in, venting her frustrations to her Twitter followers.

“Years & years they have been photoshopping pics of me & sabotaging my image. I’m not putting up with that sh-t no more. All they have been proving is Im THAT b-tch with or without an album out & they always want to attack & bring down the real ones,” she wrote. “Today was the last straw. You saw me on TV, people were posting pics all day… None of them looked the way that fake picture looked.”

At the end of her vent session, Lil Kim left one final message to the paparazzi: “None of y’all Paps is getting a pic now.”